Past grant research themes

Manufacturing Theme

Name Affiliated institution Position
(Affiliations, positions, and so forth are those at the time of receiving the grant award)
Grant-Receiving Research Theme
Chikara Ohtsuki Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University Development of novel materials alternative to elephant ivory, contributing both to Japanese traditional musical instrument succession and to African tropical forest ecosystem conservation
Yusuke Nakajima Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, School of Architecture, Kogakuin University Development of indoor and outdoor environment visualization and nudge system utilizing the surrounding microclimate
Hidetoshi Takahashi Assistant Professor, Keio University Angular acceleration sensor based on semicircular canal and cochlea structure
Hajime Kawanami Chief Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Materials and Chemistry, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry
Research toward the supply of new chemical materials originated from the resources in Japan
Kusube Masataka Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College Construction of Resilient Protection for Eel Grass Field with Marine Biocement

Fundamental Research Theme

Name Affiliated institution Position
(Affiliations, positions, and so forth are those at the time of receiving the grant award)
Grant-Receiving Research Theme
Kumi Yabuuchi Research Assistant Professor,Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Research on the Production of Sustainable Artwork Learned from Patterns in the Natural World
Yuichiro Sueoka Assistant Professor, Osaka University Swarm-phantom controller learned from the sheepdog system: towards the construction of scale-free swarm robotic system
Nobuyoshi MIYAMOTO Associate Professor, Department of Life, Environment and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology Supermolecular actuator inspired by animal myofibrils: novel self-assembly behavior of mono-disperse inorganic nanosheets with precisely controlled size and morphology
Shin-ichi Yusa Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo Development of low energy transportation system inspired by leaf beetle
Keiichi Inoue Associate Professor, The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo Development of elemental technology for the CO2-free desalination of seawater using light-driven ion pump proteins
Daisuke Ono Assistant Professor, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University Development of a new method for neuronal activity recording using firefly bioluminescence
Jun Terao Professor, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Fabrication of nm chemical device based on ultra-fast electron transfer element learned from neuron structure